Panoramic shots are fairly easy to take these days. Most cell phones have a special setting with onscreen instructions, meaning pretty much anyone can take one of these sweeping shots. But with that worldwide surge of panoramic photos being taken comes a secondary phenomenon that no one anticipated – the nightmarish mutants that appear in failed attempts. Let's just say that when a panoramic shot goes wrong, it really goes wrong.

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If you want to see more of these, there is an attribution at the end of the article with a link to a Facebook page with plenty more.

These images were taken from atop the Empire State Building and is of course interactive.

The largest photo ever made of NYC. 360 degree New York City gigapixel. If you printed this image at a standard photo resolution of 300DPI, it would be 18 meters or 57 feet wide, and 9 meters / 28 feet tall.

San Francisco photographer Nick Steinberg has captured absolutely stunning images of the famous San Francisco fog rolling in waves that sweep over the Marin Headlands to blanket the valley in between. In the company of other photographers such as Lorenzo Montezemolo, Steinberg spent a great many a chilly night atop Mount Tamalpais to capture these gorgeous images amongst his others.

Paramedic Chris Porsz spent hours walking around the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (Great Britain) in the late 1970s and 80s, taking candid shots of punks and policemen, siblings and sweethearts, traders and teenagers. More than three decades later, Chris has reconstructed a handful of his favourite photos from his collection. He spent the last seven years tracking down the people in his pictures and persuading them to pose once again. His hard work paid off and he has now published his photos in a new book, "Reunions".